Creative Wave – April 7

Happy Friday everyone, normal service is resumed! Special shout-out has to go to Phil this week for providing a good third of my content I think! Cheers mate! Big up to everyone else who submits other content every week by the way, much appreciated. We’ve got tech, advertising, sport, music, film and robots on the menu for your delectation. Enjoy.

TUNE FOR THE WEEKEND-

I was really torn this week. I wanted to use Radiohead’s Climbing Up The Walls, but then I realised I really liked three different versions of it. In the end I went with the East Star All Stars’ reggae mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axs8-9u5qbY

OBSCURE HERO OF THE WEEK-

You probably don’t know the name Gilbert Baker but I guarantee you know some of his work. He was a San Francisco-based artists who in 1978 designed a certain eight-colour flag to celebrate the city’s gay freedom day. He died this week, and in his honour, the city have raised a giant rainbow flag in Harvey Milk Plaza – so-called after the country’s first openly gay politician, who was a close friend of Baker’s. You can read a bit more about his life here and discover what each of the eight colours in the rainbow flag actually stand for: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39462530

* I really like this new Samsung spot which uses an ostrich as a champion for doing the impossible. Good choice for the soundtrack too-

* Something amazing for zebra fans. Over the last few weeks John Oliver has been talking a lot about zebras, as they’re being used in Bolivia as community support officers. He then invited everyone to use 23 minutes of green screen zebra footage his show produced to help liven up even the most bleak of news stories. Part one is below (links to part two and three are in the related vids bit):